Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
CATO THE YOUNGERSince it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]
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It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.
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Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband’s private mill.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys.
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
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The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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